What is God’s Will? Definition and practicality – R’ Dr. Gil Gershon Tivon

Of any subject that can stir up lack of clarity, confusion, controversy, chaos and even wars, it is the subject of God’s Will. Ideally, of course, such a topic should not lead to negativity, as it is intended as a positive factor; it is only an unawareness of Spiritual Truth that could in any way diminish its Reality.

Throughout history, whether in a particular personal life or of an entire nation, the idea of one or more people with a unity of purpose, or doing God’s Will, has been present in the lives of countless souls.

In pursuing doing God’s Will, one might continually ask one’s soul the following questions: 

Is it really God’s Will I attempt, or my own will posing as God’s Will for the sake of my personal will?

Is it God’s Will, if out of such will there emerges lack of love, intolerance, or impatience?

Is it God’s Will if one or more people are in any way physically and/or spiritually injured or hurt?

Is it God’s Will that is guiding whatever lifestyle I am living in general?

It is important to actually know whether or not one is following God’s Will, for any of the following reasons:

Doing God’s Will should produce better results in one’s life. This, of course, can be questioned by some who might dispute what indeed constitutes “better results.”

Doing God’s Will should reduce pain – whether physical, psychic, psychological or spiritual in nature.

Doing God’s Will should produce great inner peace, contentment, fulfillment and happiness. Again, one might dispute the presence of any of these factors based upon one’s definition of these particular items.

Doing God’s Will produces better karma in this life, as well as aids in one’s spiritual development and unfoldment.

While the pages of history books are filled with tales of such conflict, it actually exists more in the daily act of living for most people, without requiring the life and death drama of war to stir up the emotions, while some wish only to believe that apparent good.

The search for Truth must be served as an absolute value, in the Presence of God.

However, when we only do our own personal will, the results will not work out the way we would like it to.

Many who are sincerely attempting, in their own way and according to their own awareness, to do God’s Will are, as stated, not physically manifesting any apparent good by its general standards or definitions as typically applied by society in today’s world. Only the concept of eternal good ceases the conflict of the “haves” and “have-nots,” who both claim to be sincerely attempting to follow God’s Will.

Eternal Good measures good in terms of one’s soul as it journeys through Eternity rather than on the so-called tangibles of any one lifetime of manifestation.

Therefore, a person who is sincerely seeking to do God’s Will is indeed gathering the fruits of the Spirit, as it were, although the results may be more a question of timing (when such good will be manifest) than any apparent lack of it in the past or in the future.

In actuality, from a spiritual frame of reference, with past, present and future existing simultaneously, the good found in the Eternal Measure of Good already exists for the person attempting to do God’s Will, whether later on in this lifetime or in still another life to be lived. 

Eternal Good is measured not by tangible results (physically demonstrable), but also by subjective measure.  

That is, when a soul sincerely attempts to do God’s Will, the inner results are far more important than the outer results, or the usual yardstick of measurement.  

A strength and power of Spirit grows within one’s being when a person attempts to do God’s Will in spite of little outward manifestation of it. The reason is one of commitment to the Spirit in spite of little appearance of outward reward for it.

Therefore, as can be seen, any soul who sincerely attempts to do God’s Will is always receiving good back from God in some way, although the good received may not be physically apparent in the person’s life.

Doing God’s Will can therefore be beneficial in the following ways:

Outwardly apparent as a physically manifesting demonstration of good.

Inwardly apparent as a manifestation of commitment, which is subjective.

Very few actually have true religious commitment to God’s Will, due to not wishing to relinquish their own personal will.

  People fear the unknown and change. Change threatens an uncertain sense of identity.

  Of course, the idea of giving up one’s personal will to God, for most people, seems to pose a threat that they will no longer be able to indulge themselves in their own vanities and personally-motivated aims.

   A person who accepts God’s Will in their life actually enjoys more of not only the things of the Spirit, but of this earth as well, perhaps in a more Spiritual appreciation of life’s experiences and their meanings.

Opening to God’s Will is a very personal decision each soul must make individually within itself without outside pressure. 

Only when the individual soul has evolved to the point where it can actually see the legitimacy of giving itself up to God’s Will, will it in fact do so.

All else is a temporary illusion of wishing to let God’s Will rule one’s soul.

This is true in all of life’s areas, such as: love & connection, finances and career, life-style and spirituality.

If a person truly wishes to do God’s Will, then they must be willing to let God’s Will take over in all of the major areas of one’s life.